by Rafael Hernandez on July 6, 2004
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HardOCP has a look at the BFG Tech GeForce 6800U OC which comes out of the box sporting a beefed up clock rate giving it some of the highest performance numbers for a consumer available video card. All of this…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 6, 2004
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X-bit labs has a few reports of a shrunken down core AMD Athlon 64 making its way to some of its partners and larger clients. The die shrink allows faster clock speeds and greater yields but it starts to become…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 5, 2004
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BIOS has word of an innovative product called the Trust 312KC USB calculator keypad which sports an integrated LCD display so you can view your calculations while you work. A nice little gadget that is sure to have a number…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 5, 2004
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InformationWeek looks at the good, bad, and the ugly in the upcoming Microsoft Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. The update is getting a ton of “buzz”, rightfully so since it appears to be a turning point for Microsoft where…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 5, 2004
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R&B Mods has a review of a rather nifty device which allows you to plug in any IDE device into a USB(2) port. While you can do that, for the most part, with any external drive chassis though this device…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 5, 2004
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DigiTimes writes of Intel’s planned price cuts to its upcoming Celeron D line of processors as well as a few of their older designs which will put pressure on AMD’s upcoming Sempron chip. Moderate drops in price for the most…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 3, 2004
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DigiTimes has word that ATI is planning to launch a pair of motherboard chipsets with integrated graphics for both the Intel and AMD. The chipset’s graphics performance is expected to be above par with the current choices out there, which…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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VR-Zone Hardware has a brief article with a picture of the new AMD Athlon 64 sporting the “Winchester” core. The new design is mostly a die shrink using the smaller 90nm process which will increase yields per wafer and, hopefully,…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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TweakTown has the goods on four pairs of high speed DDR memory sticks from the likes of OCZ, Kingmax, Mushkin, and TwinMOS. Many current and future motherboards support dual channel memory which does give a nice performance boost so memory…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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HotHardware has a review of the ASUS AX800 Pro which, as you may have guessed, uses the ATI Radeon X800 Pro chipset. This board would be just like any other X800 Pro board except for the rather large software bundle…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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The Tech Report has a short guide filled with some cheap tips on how to cut down on the noise your PC may create. Most cases are not designed with low noise production in mind, rather, many designs want to…
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